Rumour: AMD's HD 6000 series out in October

I reckon if you buy a 5870 now, you will still be ok for a least a year or two in terms of playability. Unless of course you are a compulsive upgrader, in which case you have probably already moved on past the 5870 already.
 
let these come! more competition is good :)

hopefully nvidia will compete. which will result in lower prices :)
 
Neo said:
Bill Gates would like to speak with you.
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He is right though. There always seems to be this idea following PC gaming that you HAVE to upgrade 10 times a year, making it a gaming platform only for the rich which is rubbish ofc. If you can afford to upgrade 10 times a year, that's awesome and you'll never have to play anything with a setting not maxxed out, actually you'll be a year or two ahead of the curve. If you are on a tight budget and have some help building a future proof rig, you can easily be gaming on the same machine for 5 years without an upgrade if your happy settling for medium setting 4 years down the line.
 
like right now. my rig is set to hold me til 2014/15.

sure it won't be tops for more than 6 months, but it'll do it all for the forseeable future, plus if i really need to, i can just pop in one of the new hexcore jobs from AMD and cpu upgrade sorted once more. but it's not needed as my quad is more than powerful enough currently
 
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/graphics/new-dual-chip-card-comes-from-ati

Next generation 40nm in 2010

We've just learned that ATI's next generation, let's call it Radeon 6000 series, is going to get a new high-end card. We are talking about a dual-chip card based on new 40nm chips that are expected to get slightly faster than the current generation. The best part is that it comes in 2010.

We see the new performance chips as a tweaked version of the highly succesful Cypress core, but this time they will introduce support for the new HDMI interface as well as new UVD – Eyefinity. Eyefinity will become more functional and cheaper to implement on multiple monitor setups.

Of course the core itself will be slightly improved, but we don’t expect a spectacular performance increase. It will be faster than the current generation, that much is clear, but we still don't know much about Nvidia's answer to this card.
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